Casual Observation

10 Comments

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   mainsailset on May 26, 2014 at 6:00 pm

   It’ll be interesting to see how this gang treats the health care system in France that is touted as the best in the world. With their economy struggling there may just be some ahh adjustments.

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     StellaB on May 27, 2014 at 1:49 am

     I can’t imagine that they will make changes to the health care system. It is very well liked and costs considerably less as a percentage of GDP than we spend in the US.

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   Ulysses S Grunt on May 26, 2014 at 6:06 pm

   We are getting closer to the time Rev. Lowery augured in his inaugural benediction, but we’re not there yet – here or around the globe. Still some rivers to cross.

   LOWERY: Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around…

   (LAUGHTER)

   … when yellow will be mellow…

   (LAUGHTER)

   LOWERY: … when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

   AUDIENCE: Amen.

   LOWERY: Say Amen.

   AUDIENCE: Amen.

   LOWERY: And Amen.

   AUDIENCE: Amen.

   (APPLAUSE)

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   rikyrah on May 26, 2014 at 6:10 pm

   think this is a response to austerity?

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     The Voice In The Wilderness on May 26, 2014 at 7:01 pm

     Absolutely! Both Far Left and Far Right won according to the link. What lost was the squishy “pull in your belt so the banksters can make even more money” Center.

     A Cautionary Tale. Or a beacon?

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   Raypc800 on May 26, 2014 at 7:02 pm

   When people feel economically stressed they tend to overreact. They also tend to look for someone to blame, lately that role has been filled by all of those at the lower economic level.In my opinion the reason for this is these people feel safe blaming those poorer for the poor have no real recourse.

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   The Voice In The Wilderness on May 26, 2014 at 7:17 pm

   Damn right we are! When we march, watch out! The Center cannot hold. We are tired of being trickled on.

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   sunmusing on May 26, 2014 at 8:18 pm

   I knew that marriage wouldn’t last…

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   hawesg on May 26, 2014 at 8:24 pm

   Don’t read too much into European Parliament elections.  They tend to be fairly meaningless protest votes.  The British have been electing UKIP flakes to the EU Parliament for years.  Doesn’t mean they would elect these guys into their own parliaments.

   It’s a convenient protest vote, not an expression of electoral trends.

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     Davis X Machina on May 26, 2014 at 9:33 pm

     Watch the upcoming Newark by-election… that’s for a real seat in Commons.